Jazz

Tom Misch and Yussef Dayes’ What Kinda Music – an astonishing collaboration between two artists of very different disciplines, and one of the most unique and seamlessly original projects of its ilk to date. 

After cutting these sides Baker and Evans would go their separate ways and these recordings remain the only testimony of their subtle and elegant musical interactions.

Easily one of the most important records ever made, this was Coltrane's pinnacle studio outing that spoke of his search for spiritual and musical freedom, as expressed through polyrhythms, modalities, and purely vertical forms.

Dorothy Ashby was an American jazz harpist, one of the very few who used her instrument to play credible jazz and bebop.

On his third date for Blue Note within a year, Wayne Shorter changed the bands that played on both Night Dreamer and Juju and came up with not only another winner, but also managed to give critics and jazz fans a different look at him as a saxophonist.

Album of the Year 2015 Number 7.A brazen release from young Los Angeles jazz giant, composer and bandleader Kamasi Washington.

Donald Byrd’s 1975 album Places and Spaces featuring the hits “Wind Parade” and “Dominoes” was the culmination of the great trumpeter’s fusion period.

Mercurial bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus was signed to Columbia records for the briefest of time during 1959.

Strut present the first official reissue of a landmark album in the field of African music, Mulatu Astatke’s Mulatu Of Ethiopia from 1972.

The British jazz / hip hop fusion collective Us3 founded in 1992 in London and its notable members included producers Mel Simpson and Geoff Wilkinson. 

Recorded on 15th February 1954 and 23rd / 30th July 1956 in Hollywood, California. Baker’s 14-track debut vocal album, originally released on Pacific Jazz in 1956.

Second only to Kind of Blue by Miles and Jazz Samba by Stan Getz, as the most commercially successful jazz record of all time (it even contained a single for the pop charts, Paul Desmond's magnificent Take Five'), Brubeck brilliantly popularised jazz and offered it as a palatable alternative to Bobby Vee

Long held as the jazz album that even non-jazz fans will own, Kind Of Blue not only changed the way people regarded Miles, it changed the very face of music itself.

Influential dj, producer, radio-presentator and founder of the Acid Jazz, Talkin' Loud labels MBE Gilles Peterson has handpicked 11 of his jazz favourites from the immense catalog of the Dutch jazz Timeless label.

“The enchanted chemistry of these late 1940’s sessions has lost none of its unalterable magic.” JAZZ MAGAZINE

Gilles Peterson presents International Anthem is a Deluxe Double LP compilation chronicling the infamous London-based radio host, DJ, label head, curator, and cultural impresario's long-standing affinity for and interaction with artists and music from the Chicago-born record label International Anthem.

This is truly one of the great classics of hard bop, with drummer Art Blakey leading arguably his greatest Jazz Messengers lineup through a driving program that never lets up. Tenor saxophonist Benny Golson (whose composition Along Came Betty is heard here, subsequently becoming a jazz classic), brilliant trumpeter Lee Morgan, and funky pianist Bobby Timmons (who wrote the hit title cut) each take some of the best solos of their great careers, and Blakey was never greater. No jazz record collection should be without this disc. It remains one of the premier items in Blue Note's catalogue, and rightfully so.

Djangology is a compilation album by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, released in 1961

Reissue of herbie hancock's essential 1962 debut album on blue note. the lp features quality sound taken from the original master tapes, 180g vinyl, heavy cardboard sleeve and original artwork.

Recorded live at the Village Vanguard on June 25, 1961, the same night as Sunday At The Village Vanguard, this set rounded out what became known as an early "full" portrait of Bill Evans.

Celebrating 40 years since its first release, Johnny Hammond's Gears is given the deluxe treatment on CD and vinyl with the addition of six previously unreleased tracks and a brand new transfer from the original masters.

Japanese jazz / breakbeat, folkloric mega-rarity as hallowed the likes of DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Egon and co. 

Following the hugely popular first Acid Jazz (Not Jazz) release in 2022, label-heads Eddie Piller and Dean Rudland return with a second vinyl outing - We’ve Got A Funky Beat.

This album is one of the reasons that Idris Muhammad is regarded as the drumming king of groove. 

Miles Davis (1926-1991) and Bill Evans (1929-1960) were two of the major luminaries in jazz history.

Certainly, this edition of Return to Forever wasn't inclined toward high-voltage jazz-rock (as the next one was), but this group's two albums still stand as some of the most imaginative and distinctive early fusion recordings.

Universally regarded as one of the greatest collaborations between the two most influential musicians in modern jazz (Miles Davis notwithstanding), the Jazzland sessions from Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane should be recognized on other levels. While the mastery of the principals is beyond reproach, credit should also be given to peerless bassist Wilbur Ware, as mighty an anchor as anyone could want. These 1957 dates also sport a variety in drummerless trio, quartet, septet, or solo piano settings, all emphasizing the compelling and quirky compositions of Monk.

Memoirs of Hi-Tech Jazz is a sound score evocative of resistance.

With Ballads Coltrane looks into the warmer side of things, a path he would take with both Johnny Hartman and with Duke Ellington.

An excellent drummer who has appeared in many types of settings, Idris Muhammad became a professional when he was 16.

NOT TiGHT is the long-awaited debut album from virtuosic Gen Z duo, DOMi and JD Beck, released on Anderson .Paak’s new label Apeshit in partnership with the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records. 

This excellent set features one of the best recordings by the second version of the Jazz Messengers, and it is the only time that Blakey featured both altoist Jackie McLean and tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin together; Griffin soon became McLean's successor with the band.

Sunday at the Village Vanguard is a live album by jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans and his Trio consisting of Evans, bassist Scott LaFaro, and drummer Paul Motian. Released in 1961, the album is routinely ranked as one of the best live jazz recordings of all time.

Fat Albert Rotunda is the venture into jazz-funk by keyboardist Herbie Hancock.

A Single Woman is an album from 1993 by singer, pianist, and songwriter Nina Simone. It was her last album. In 1993, A Single Woman was placed 3th in the Top Jazz Albums.

"This important album, Monk's first after a long absence from the recording studio, is a stunning reaffirmation of his power as a performer and composer. It is a brilliant and absorbing program of five Monk originals and three standards (and they might just as well be originals, so startling is their transformation at his hands). This is a beautiful album in every respect." - Pete Welding, DownBeat Magazine

This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

A new, remastered, clear vinyl edition of The James Taylor Quartet’s seminal debut The Money Spyder.

Full colour repro of original sleeve with flip-back detailing on reverse. Released in 1969, this is probably the best modern British jazz LP of all time. A beguiling mix of East meets West rhythms, ideas and joy, repressed with an authentic flip back sleeve. 

Chet Baker Sings is unique in that the nimble artist sets aside his trumpet in several of the tracks, using only his vocals—and even scatting some of the improvised solos in a style that sounds very much like his lyrical trumpet playing.

"All the Vanguard music is informed by an extra sense of discovery, as if the musicians were suddenly aware of what they were on to and were celebrating the achievement."

Two months after recording The Sidewinder, trumpet legend Lee Morgan was back in Van Gelder Studio in February 1964 creating his masterful sextet album Search for the New Land with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Grant Green, Reggie Workman, and Billy Higgins.

Collection of jazz favourites from the Dutch jazz label Timeless Records (which celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2025) compiled by world reknown jazz collector, labelboss, radio-jock and DJ Gilles Peterson.

This release presents the complete widely celebrated Massey Hall concert, performed in Canada by an all-star quintet of bebop founders which would never be reunited again.

Given that 'Round About Midnight was Miles Davis' debut Columbia recording, it was both a beginning and an ending. 

Oh yes! First ever official reissue of the positively sublime and very rare Butterfly LP, recorded in Tokyo in 1979 by Japanese songstress Kimiko Kasai and jazz legend Herbie Hancock.

Follow up to Sending My Love debut, and now remasetred and remixed with additional tracks, Mancunian trumpeter Matthew Halsall teams up with labelmate Nat Birchall, pianist Adam Fairhall, bass player Gavin Barras and alternating drummers Gaz Hughes and Marek Dorcik for an album of melodic and often meditative jazz. 

Strut release the new album Symphonie Pacifique by UK jazz pianist, Greg Foat.

The piano hero’s classic 1964 album. His third Blue Note LP. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on 30th August 1963.

Lady Day was born under the name of Eleanora Fagan. How much suffering does it take to express love, pain, despair, or even life itself? Few singers have communicated emotions like Billie Holiday. 

Duke Ellington surprised the jazz world in 1962 with his historic trio session featuring Charles Mingus and Max Roach.

Some of the most out-there music you are ever likely to hear!

Joséphine Baker, chanteuse, dancer and star of cabaret, movies, musical hall and jazz was an electrifying personality.

In a Silent Way' is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis, released on July 30, 1969.

Wewantsounds reissue for the first time Harold Land's classic LP Damisi, recorded in Los Angeles for Bob Shad's Mainstream Records and released in 1972. 

Their masterpiece? With breaks for dayyyyyys and an almost ambient, heavy jazz atmosphere throughout, *this* is the apex of British jazz-rock fusion.

This gatefold Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog.

Charlie Byrd (1925 -1999) was one of the first modern guitar players to reintroduce the unamplified Spanish guitar into jazz.

As his only release for Blue Note, this 1957 set is one of the finest bop albums recorded. 

Jazz classic. By the time Know What I Mean? was recorded (January-March 1961), both Julian Cannonball Adderley and Bill Evans had left the highly successful Miles Davis Sextet.

Carried by its almost impossibly infectious eponymous opening track, The Sidewinder helped foreshadow the sounds of boogaloo and soul-jazz with its healthy R&B influence and Latin tinge.

When jazz bass virtuoso Paul Chambers recorded his third and final album as a Blue Note lead, Bass On Top, he was already well established.

Colin Curtis is back! with another finely curated selection of the best Jazz Dance Fusion records he could find.

Brilliant Corners is Thelonius Monk's third disc for Riverside, and it's the first on the label to weigh in with such heavy original material.

In between being one of the most recorded studio drummers of all time (this "Purdie Shuffle" graced everything from Aretha Franklin to Steely Dan), Bernard Purdie squeezed in a few sessions of his own.

Hammond B3 organist Freddie Roach began a run of Blue Note leader dates with his excellent 1962 debut Down To Earth. The deeply soulful set was a showcase of his nuanced, bluesy sound and thoroughly enjoyable original tunes like “Althea Soon” that were ideal vehicles for this swinging band with Percy France, Kenny Burrell, and Clarence Johnston. This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

The guitarist’s acclaimed 1961 debut. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on 28th January 1961.

This 1952 collection is one of bebop’s key artefacts and also represents two jazz milestones: the only and only time that pianist Thelonious Monk recorded with the dynamic duo, and the last time Gillespie and Parker appeared together in the studio.

Invigorating six-song hard bop masterclass.

A never-before-heard live recording from a private collection. Coltrane’s Classic Quartet and Pharoah Sanders and others. One of only three known concert performances of the most iconic suite in jazz.

Wewantsounds is delighted to reissue Harold Land's 1971 Mainstream Records LP Choma (Burn), recorded in Los Angeles with Bobby Hutcherson and featuring Reggie Johnson on bass, Ndugu and Woody Theus on drums, Bill Henderson and Harold Land Jr. on piano/Fender Rhodes.

Chet Baker in New York has Chet Baker playing with great East Coast musicians: Philly Joe Jones on drums, Al Haig on piano, the great Paul Chambers on bass, and tenor saxophonist Johnny Grifn added on three tracks.

This release presents the complete original Mongo Santamaria LP Watermelon Man!

Ray Charles At Newport is a 1958 live album of Ray Charles' July 5, 1958 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival.

Recorded and released in 1969, Herbie Hancock’s last Blue Note album The Prisoner is a powerful but overlooked masterpiece.

This top-notch spiritual jazz album from Argentina will leave fans of Pharoah Sanders and John Coltrane astonished. Recorded in 1975 and still surprisingly off the radar, this is one of the deepest jazz albums from South America.

Nucleus's Elastic Rock is undisputedly a milestone in Jazz-Rock. A beautiful and vital debut album, it was first released on Vertigo in 1970.

Cal Tjader fuses Afro-Cuban rhythms and mainstream jazz solos in his 1956 album Latin Kick.

Yet another album of musical excellence compiled by If Music's Jean-Claude for the excellent and massively collectible 'You Need This' series.

Like his one-time boss, Miles Davis, Saxophonist Wayne Shorter can divide his long and established career into phases.